Author:

Alan Carrigan

Alan Carrigan is a novelist and screenwriter with quadriplegic cerebral palsy who worked as a script editor for Ink and Light Films and D11 Stories. His own work focuses on character-driven, witty, and nuanced stories, most of which feature the types of authentically disabled characters he needed but rarely saw growing up.

Then We'll Be Happy

When seventeen-year-old Sam, who has cerebral palsy, is once again excluded from a class trip because the school bus is not wheelchair accessible, he decides to start a fundraiser to raise money for an inclusive bus. While the bus may be the catalyst for this story, what unfolds goes far beyond any fundraiser.

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